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How to Get Back Into the Reading Habit and Find More Time for Reading

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

According to NBC News , in a 2006 poll of 1,000 adults, 25% didn’t read any books in the previous year. “The typical person claimed to have read four books in the last year–half read more and half read fewer.” There was no time for reading (I thought). ” How to Find More Time to Read. Put limits on technology.

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Emergency Room or Urgent Care?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Since it was after business hours, we headed for the emergency room, where after about an hour, a doctor read the xray results and informed us that nope, it wasn’t broken (thanks be!). Although they began to appear in the US in the 1970s (according to Wikipedia anyway), I didn’t start hearing about them until around 2006.

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